Chinese leader Xi Jinping promised Taiwan’s reunification with mainland China during his year-end speech on Sunday.
Tensions between China and Taiwan remain high, and Taiwanese voters are set to take part in the island’s election on January 13. Xi has repeatedly reiterated China’s position that Taiwan is part of China and that it must be reunified, by force if necessary.
“All Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common goal and share in the glory of China’s national rejuvenation,” Xi said in a speech on Sunday.
The speech was the second time in as many days that Xi addressed the Taiwan issue. Xi also vowed to reunify Taiwan on Tuesday during a symposium in Beijing commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the founding father of Communist China.
“The reunification of the motherland is an undeniable trend,” Xi said at the event, adding that China would “resolutely prevent anyone from dividing” the two sides.
Meanwhile, in Taiwan, people are preparing to face elections. Current opinion polls show the population is in favor of the pro-independence candidate Lai Ching-te.
Xi Jinping reiterated that China and Taiwan must be “reunified,” even if that means using the military to do so. AP
Polls show that Taiwanese voters prefer pro-independence candidate Lai Ching-te AP
China has bristled at any international sign of Taiwan independence. Xi’s military conducted weeks of live-fire exercises around the Island in 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., went there.
Taiwan broke away from mainland China in 1949, when democratic forces fled there after losing a civil war against the Chinese Communist Party.
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